Tag: Odisha

New Delhi, Aug 14: The win for the NDA in the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman elections was a major victory for the combine and a blow for the opposition. The jubilant scenes in the BJP camp following Harivansh’s victory were quite expected.

Narendra Modi always likes to surprise all and he may just pick Draupadi Murmu as the candidate for the next President of India. Murmu aged 59 is a tribal from Odisha and with the BJP aiming to capture the state, this pick makes sense for the party.Read more

Two civil rights groups working for tribal people in Odisha and Jharkhand are acting as fronts for naxal groups, a report by the Union Home Ministry has said. The two groups were using displacement of local communities as their main plank, the report further stated.

In Odisha, the Biju Janata Dal may have won, but it is the BJP which is smiling the most. The results for the Odisha Zilla Parishad elections held in five phases saw the BJD bagging 473 out of the 846 seats.

New Delhi, Mar 14: Was a cell of the al-Qaeda in the sub-continent (AQIS) operating in the jungles of Jharkhand with the help of naxals? The Delhi police recently bust a module and carried out nation wide arrests stating that a cell of the AQIS was trying to set up shop in India.

There were arrests made in Bengaluru and Odisha and the police had claimed that these clerics had not only brainwashed youth, but were also facilitating terror camps.

New Delhi, Feb 22: There has been a relatively quiet investigation that is being carried out in Odisha after the arrest of suspected SIMI members last week. In the year 2013 five members of the SIMI had broken out of the Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh and remained at large until recently.

While two were killed in an encounter last year, three others were recently arrested at Rourkela in Odisha. This module was being blamed for a series of incidents that took place in the country, but with the probe going deeper, it has been found that they were involved more in robberies rather than acts of terror. Their names have been associated with robberies in Telangana and Madhya Pradesh.

New Delhi, Dec 18: Three persons suspected to be linked to the al-Qaeda were arrested by the Delhi and Odisha police over the past week. While investigators claim that they were planning on carrying out attacks in Delhi, it was also said that they were trying to establish six modules in different parts of the country.

What makes this case interesting, if the Delhi police are able to ascertain that they were indeed al-Qaeda operatives is that two of the arrested persons are from Uttar Pradesh while the other was picked up in Cuttack, Odisha.